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African American Vernacular Photography (Steidl/ICP, 2006)

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African American Vernacular Photography: Selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection, Steidl/ICP, March 2006, 120 pages, 11 x 8.5 x 0.8 inches, ISBN-10:3865212255; ISBN-13: 978-3865212252, US $25.
From the publisher’s site:
This book, which accompanies an exhibition of the same title on view at the International Center of Photography, presents an extraordinary group of images of African Americans [...]

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Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures (Steidl, 2008)

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Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures.
Edited by Tiny Robinson and John Reynolds. Numerous photographers.
Steidl, Gottingen, 2007. 224 pp., 160 color illustrations, 9×13″, hardcover, US $50.
Publisher’s Description
The influential Louisiana bluesman, Lead Belly, wrote and performed some of the best-loved songs of the twentieth century, including ‘The Midnight Special,’ ‘Rock Island Line’ and [...]

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